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And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton.

Hello, hello, everyone.

Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox.

I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 36.

If you've been listening for any time at all, you know that this whole season is about systems,

which might seem complicated or even impossible to set up and follow.

Maybe you've tried following or making a productivity system before, and it just didn't work.

That's why for the next few episodes, we're focusing on making your systems as simple and as easy to use as possible.

So today we're going to talk about setting up some springboards within your systems.

And I want you to think about springboards like in gymnastics.

So a gymnast jumps on a springboard and they're propelled further than they would have been

if they had just jumped on a fixed platform.

So it makes them able to complete routines.

They can do techniques and tricks even easier and with more power.

It enables them to do these moves that they could never attempt if they started from standing still.

So why can't a springboard be a standard part of your

productivity? A springboard is a small action or a tool that pushes you forward into completing

a task. It's similar to what we talked about back in episode 31 with having a cue for a habit,

but it doesn't just apply to habits.

We can apply it to systems in general.

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